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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always thought, is the fact that it omits to mention London, tho...Richard [Dick] Kharsedji Sorabji Edwin HodderCities of the WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters. I did not want that to become public property. If you ...Cornelia Sorabji Kirkham (ed.)Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia'...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare...Cornelia Sorabji Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare...Cornelia Sorabji Austin DobsonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'The other day some people from “The Gentlewoman” came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into their paper. I hate being public property and so refused t...Cornelia Sorabji The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips.George Otto Trevelyan Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.'Robert Louis Stevenson Leslie Stephen'George Eliot' in Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: "Given me when at Harrow, by Macaulay to prepare for...George Otto Trevelyan Martin MadanA new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perse...Print: Book
1850-1899MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Weybridge 1872. St. George's Hill, returning from takin...George Otto Trevelyan Horace Works; ed by MacleanePrint: Book
1850-1899Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.George Otto Trevelyan Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899'By Swinburne's conversion, I meant no reference to his divagations about 'Rizpah', which I did not honour with perusal, but to other matter in that article which I shall...Robert Louis Stevenson Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, we take another view; the first vol. a la bonne heur...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas CarlyleReminiscencesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Glasgow Oct 15 1891; v.4: Milan Oct 24 1891; v.5 Rome ...George Otto Trevelyan Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have ...Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrated London NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868: 'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck with the following verse from the "Woodman's Beare,...Charles Cockin Joshua Sylvester'The Woodman's Beare'Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, January 1869: 'A. read "The Holy Grail" to the Bradleys, explaining the realism and symbolism, and how the natural, if people cared, cou...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Feb. 13th. A. read what he had done of the birth and marriage of "Arthur."'Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'birth and marriage of "Arthur"'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Coming of ArthurManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the ...Alfred Tennyson Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book


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